James Davies,
You and I became friends at that Macworld. Thank you for remaining a friend all these years.
I still remember using PowerGlot to translate the Freeway 3 UI into Japanese, and working hard with my associate here in Japan to translate all the documentation. The really knock-em-dead feature at those old Macworlds was the fact Freeway could switch languages on the fly, which was no small task for OS 9 (pre OS X MacOS), and as far as I know, only Quark Xpress had it at the time. (Today we take such for granted in OS X.) You can still read on article on that at Tidbits (scroll down to “Smooth Operators” — indicates I actually did something right at that show!):
Here are a few ancient Macworld Tokyo photos (you’ll need QT Player 7 to view the VR *.mov file):
Macworld Tokyo 2000 (outside, with Freeway Actions author Alan Shouls and me in leather):
http://cl.ly/3I2z2g1t3o3P/James-Alan-Amaki-MacworldTokyo2000.jpg
Macworld Tokyo 2001 (QTVR download):
http://cl.ly/2J0M3f3L3j0y/download/MacworldTokyo2001_FreewayBooth_QTVR.mov
Here’s a still of the VR, for those without QT7 (me at left, James Davies sitting at center, and my business associates at right):
http://cl.ly/180v2H0o2R3k/MacworldTokyo2001_QTVR-Still.jpg
I was also blessed with the opportunity to visit Oxford and SoftPress a couple times back in those days. I’ll never forgot the lunch conversation we had. We were having sandwiches at SoftPress and Richard Logan asks me which part of the bread I want. Me being an American said, “the heel.” Everyone at the table lifted their voices almost to a scream saying, “Oooooooh! The Heeeeeeel!” Followed by Trash vs. Rubbish, and so forth. My those were good times!
My love affair with Freeway began in 1999 and I’ve been captivated by her and her designers since. I must say I didn’t sleep well last night. I really am brokenhearted knowing SoftPress is signing off. May the SoftPress team be blessed with even greener pastures henceforth.
Best wishes,
James Wages
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